Nine years of history was overcome with one match, in a city waiting with baited breath for this very moment.

Our jazba will make us relentlessly believe, but the logic in us defies it, but since when has logic done us any good?

Our players who are under attack will simply not play in Maharashtra. There you have it, problem brilliantly solved.

Like the country that is on its last limb, Pakistan cricket is currently on its ventilator.

This is the year the associates have come out to play with a vengeance, almost to spite the policies of the ICC.

Either we are winning the World Cup or are being decimated. Much like the country, our cricket team mirrors extremes.

Statistically speaking, Pakistan has lost to India each time. Fanatically speaking, all rationality will be forgotten.

If India can let go of Yuvraj Singh and Virender Sehwag, why are we still holding on to Shoaib Malik and Kamran Akmal?

He doesn’t hold the adulation of Dhoni, he hasn’t garnered the obsession of Imran Khan yet his statistics surpass...

There is no doubting his energy on the field but every cricketer has their moment and Afridi’s time has passed.